Northgate Cross Country 10th Annual Alumni Race
Castle Rock Regional Park is the annual venue for a fun showdown between our current high school runners and cross country runners of years past. The baseball field in Castle Rock Park provides a generous start line, and this year 60 runners lined up to tackle the 2.2 mile course featuring challenging technical terrain, hills, sand and rocks. Rising Junior Niko Windham won the race, threatened only by a sneak attack by alumni Laurence Seabrook (class of 2016), for the girls alumni Megan Malloy (class of 2022) and Chico State stand out runner, took top female, with Senior Olivia Joseph in hot pursuit and our first female high schooler. Forward Motion Sports in Danville provided prizes to the first male and female, but we also awarded to the following categories:
Award winners:
First Female, Megan Malloy
First Male – Niko Windham
First Female Alum/Community Rebecca Carcamo
First Male Alumni – Laurence Seabrook
First Female 11/12 Olivia Joseph
First male 11/12 grade – Rhys Sullivan
First Female Frosh Matilda Rees
First Male Frosh – Liam Bamforth
First Female Middle School Sibyl Soyoguz
First Male Middle School – Colin Chen
As a cross country coach this is easily my favorite day of the year. It was amazing to host over 80 runners, their families, and alumni, who represented many years past, with a large group from the class of 2021 who we had trained all through the pandemic and were the first in many years to qualify both boys and girls teams to the State meet. Talking to athletes over a fun potluck brunch about their experiences and knowing that the program mattered enough to them to come back to see everyone means a great deal and helped share the proud history of our team with the younger athletes.
By Ruth Seabrook, Cross Country Coach